By Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera
The 16 essays in "Writing Off the Hyphen" process the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from present theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful effects. The authors examine how the diasporic adventure of Puerto Ricans is performed out within the context of sophistication, race, gender, and sexuality and the way different topics rising from post-colonialism and post-modernism come into play. Their severe paintings additionally demonstrates an realizing of the way the method of migration and the kinfolk among Puerto Rico and the U.S. complicate notions of cultural and nationwide identification as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. the gathering has massive breadth and depth.It covers previous, undertheorized writers equivalent to Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpre, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. trendy writers akin to Rosario Ferre and Judith Ortiz Cofer are mentioned along often-neglected writers corresponding to Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and homosexual author Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays disguise the entire genres and reveal that present theoretical rules and techniques create interesting possibilities and chances for the research of Puerto Rican diasporic literature. Jose L. Torres-Padilla is affiliate professor of English, country collage of recent York at Plattsburgh. Carmen Haydee Rivera is affiliate professor of English, college of Puerto Rico.
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